Among the headlines on commondreams.org I spotted this: “If There Was Ever a Moment to Seize,” by Bill McKibben. For one wild second I thought — wow, McKibben sees the revolutionary potential in this crisis and is finally going to encourage people to rise up and overthrow the maniacs killing the planet!!! But that was not, of course, the case. Instead of asking *us* to seize the moment, he is asking *Obama* to do so. He wants Obama to be the leader of a people’s movement for sustainability.
Um… I think Obama is already very busy being the leader of the ecocidal, murderous capitalist class that runs this country.
Come on, give the President a chance! Remember, Reagan has only been in office for 29 years, and real change takes time. So remember to vote Capitalist in November. We wouldn’t want to change horses midstream.
It’s kind of funny that McKibben wrote a positive review on Derrick’s “What We Leave Behind” (which means he MUST have read at least some of it) and he still clings onto the false hope that those in power are going to stop destroying the planet. Come on!
He’s no leader. He’s just another puppet. The machines rule us all. Just the other day, I was going through security at… um .. airport X (lets call it that). It was the first time I encountered in person those crazy machines that replaced the metal detectors and x-rays (forget what they are called). As I stood in a glass cylinder with my hands upraised, I thought: wow, we live in sci-fi. It’s here, now. Shit.
Yes, the system has created a dystopian hell. Obama’s job is to keep it functioning as smoothly as possible — he’s a mere puppet, as you say.
Maybe a read of William Rivers Pitt’s latest over at truthout.org would be more encouraging. My take is that the onus is on us, we the people. We the people, or as Mr. Pitt would say, “we the small people”. Mixed in with some of Thom Hartmann’s inclusion of ecological consciousness, protecting the commons if you will, and the struggle for interdependence on planet earth becomes clearer.
I love the way your strip points out the frustrations dealing with the many tasks at hand.
RAGE on!